Australian politicians still talking about an Australian republic

The continued squawking about Australia becomming a republic demonstrates that our politicians are still out of touch with the community. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull still hasn't got his head around the message his government was given at the last election. The coalition only just squeaked back into government with a one seat majority because of disillusionment with government performance. Unfettered spending was one of the problems, but now he is talking of holding a plebiscite about how to elect a President and then a referendum on Australia becoming a republic. Well, the public wants neither a plebiscite nor a referendum. We don't see how this country will benefit – will it cut the waste of taxpayers dollars? No. Will it be more democratic? No. So why spend more money? We are already the 51st de facto state of the United States as for decades our governments have always done everything requested of them by the American President. Please Mr Turnbull, stop spending our money. We don't want useless joint strike fighters and uncontrolled spending on other military equipment which will probably never be used (or operational).

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